Re:black window bug (Score 1)

Ok, many good points. But also, I can reproduce this bug very easily (indeed is it enough to enable TFP and open a few big windows on my hardware. You can keep maximizing browser windows for a while and tha all new windows get black), and I would be probably likely to be trying to investigate the bug and provide a patch (as I generally do for other bugs annoying me this way.. and also I'm sure many other around could do the same even better if they had the code).
Anyway, agree with you that sw could make the difference between a card and another when talking about the performances of 3d HW.